The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms

Edited by Mark Wollaeger and With Matt Eatough

Author Information

Mark Wollaeger is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism (1990) and Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945. Matt Eatough is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Contributors:

Gerard Aching is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design (1997) and Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean (2003).

Rebecca Beasley is University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of The Queen's College. She is author of Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism (2007), and Theorists of Modernist Poetry: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and T.E. Hulme (2007), and editor, with Philip Ross Bullock, of the essay collection Russia in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Jessica Berman is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001) and Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism (2011).

Sara Blair is Professor of English and faculty associate of the American Culture and Judaic Studies programs at the University of Michigan. She is author of Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers in the Twentieth Century (2007), Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (1996), co-author with Eric Rosenberg of Documentary Reconsidered (forthcoming), and co-editor with Jonathan Freedman of Jewish in America (2004).

Eric Bulson is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce (2006) and Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000 (2007).

Manishita Dass is Lecturer in World Cinema at Royal Holloway (University of London) and has previously taught at the University of Michigan and Swarthmore College.

Laura Doyle is Professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Amherst and convener of the Five College Atlantic/Global Studies Faculty Seminar. She is author of Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 (2008) and Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (1994), as well as editor of Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture (2001) and co-editor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (2004).

Mary Lou Emery is Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where she teaches modernist and Caribbean studies. She is author of Jean Rhys at "World's End": Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile (1990), Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature (2007)

Nergis Ertürk is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (2011).

Susan Stanford Friedman teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and publishes widely in modernist studies, narrative studies, and feminist theory. She received the Wayne C. Booth Award for Lifetime Achievement in Narrative Studies (2010) and serves as President of the Modernist Studies Association in 2011-12. She co-edits the Oxford University Press journal Contemporary Women's Writing.

William O. Gardner is Associate Professor of Japanese at Swarthmore College. He is author of Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920's (2006).

Miriam Bratu Hansen (1949-2011) was Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Her publications include a book on Ezra Pound's early poetics (1979), Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (1991), and Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno.

Eric Hayot is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel (2004) and The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (2010).

Peter Kalliney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches modern British and postcolonial literature. He is author of Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness (2007).

Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is author of Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999), and The Postcolonial Unconscious (2011), and editor of Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002).

Sarah Lincoln is Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University, where she teaches postcolonial and other world literatures, along with global cinema and critical theory.

Janet Lyon is Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern (1999) and numerous articles on modernism and modernity.

Rosalind Morris is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Photographies East: The Camera and its Histories in East and Southeast Asia and Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea.

Shachar Pinsker is Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan. He is author of Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe (2010), and co-editor of Hebrew, Gender, and Modernity (2007).

Harsha Ram is Associate Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (2003).

Gayle Rogers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and is also affiliated with the European Studies Center and the Center for Latin American Studies. He is currently completing a book project, Modernism and the New Spain: Literary History, Cosmopolitanism, and Cultural Politics, 1922-39.

Anna Westerståhl Stenport is Assistant Professor and Director of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affiliate Associate Professor of Literature at Gothenburg University, Sweden. She is author of Locating August Strindberg's Prose: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting (2010).

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is Assistant Professor of French and an affiliate of the Council on Middle Eastern Studies and the African Studies Council at the MacMillan Center at Yale University.

Ben Tran is an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is completing a book manuscript entitled Post-Mandarin: Modern Vietnamese Literature, 1932-1945.

Vicky Unruh, Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Kansas, is author of Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters (1994) and Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America (2006), and co-editor (with Michael Lazzara) of Telling Ruins in Latin America (2009).

Xudong Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at New York University. He is author of Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms (1997) and Postsocialism and Cultural Politics (2008), and editor of two collections of essays on contemporary Chinese culture and intellectual discourse. As a literary and cultural critic, he also publishes widely in Chinese and is founding director of the International Center for Critical Theory at Peking University.